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Add Or 3126
- Record Id:
- 032-003263877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000146
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3126
- Title:
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Maharaja Balwant Singh of Benares
- Scope & Content:
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Maharaja Balwant Singh of Benares (1739-70).
Mughal (perhaps at Benares), c.1810.
Presented by the Maharaja of Benares, 1911.
Inscribed on border above in red ‘nasta‘liq’:’ Maharaja Balwant Singh Bahadur.’
Gouache with gold; pale blue border decorated with flowers.
254 by 190 mm; page 425 by 335 mm.
Listed: Foster (1924), no.218.
The maharaja rides a dark brown horse, accompanied by retainers who carry a sword, shield, sunshade, lance and a ‘chauri’. He wears a long white jama and has a green and gold halo.
Note: The style of the floral border and the painting itself suggest that this is the work of a Delhi artist who may have visited or taken up residence at Benares. Probably the picture is from a set of portraits of the rulers of Benares which would account for the fact that the style is not contemporary with the reign of Maharaja Balwant Singh.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263877
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263877
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/19th century style - Start Date:
- 1809
- End Date:
- 1811
- Date Range:
- c 1810
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 230
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Balwant Singh, Maharaja of Benares, 1739-1770
- Subjects:
- Portraits